Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.